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On the last Sunday of August, Miner’s Day is celebrated in Russia and the former Soviet Union, including Belarus, Estonia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine. In 2022, the holiday fell on August 28. On the congratulatory posters, there are pictures of stark, ”black gold”-stained faces of the miners. What are coal industry public relations people not telling us?

Many people think that the colonial era is a thing of the past, but in fact… it is not.

”For 35 years, the entire economy of the Soviet Union was based on Tatar oil,” said Nikolai Baibakov, Chairman of the State Planning Committee of the USSR, referring primarily to the Romashkinskoye field. The country applauded its discoverers. Of course, the first place in Russia in terms of reserves and the status of a unique super giant according to the international classification made it a legend. However, there was a scientist, who did the impossible - he could increase the economic significance of the field many times over…

It took hundreds of millions of years for geological processes to form a single supercontinent, Pangea, in the Late Paleozoic. About 220 million years ago, it split in two. Today, the six continents on Earth are very slowly but surely moving toward each other. The Mining Museum now has the opportunity to visualize the history of the Earth’s crust and its dynamics in the future, as well as many other natural processes on the Earth and other planets with its new acquisition - a digital demonstration complex with a spherical screen.

On the first Sunday of September every year, Russia celebrates Oil and Gas Industry Workers Day, often referred to simply as Oilman Day. Although the first mention of the sources of ”black gold” in the country can be found in the 10th century treatise of Byzantine Emperor Constantine Bagrjanorodny ”On State Management”, specialists of the key industry for the national economy got their professional holiday only in 1965 after miners, railwaymen, builders and metallurgists. What happened in the middle of the XX century?

According to Rosstat, in our country scientific research and development is carried out by 475 organizations, of which 990 are higher educational institutions. Moreover, if over the past 20 years the total number of organizations has not changed significantly, the share of research institutes in it has fallen by 40%, and the share of universities has increased almost threefold. There is an increase in the role of university science in the country’s research potential.

All 11 graduate students of St. Petersburg Mining University, who worked for half a year on their research projects in Germany, have safely returned to the city on the Neva

More than 800 students from 13 countries, about 50 thematic programs, laboratory research, field practice, and work with professional software… Another season of summer schools at St. Petersburg Mining University has come to an end. Which new features did the famous engineering university offer this year? What countries participated in the project and what impressions did they take back home with them?

More than 800 students from Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Namibia, India, China, the DNR, and 40 domestic higher education institutions that are members of the Nedra consortium received new competencies within their framework.

This will accelerate the integration of higher schools in Russia and the PRC.